u/trammeloratreasure

Most of the posts on here are just people not paying attention. I read them and roll my eyes. So I know exactly how this is going to sound. But I don't have an explanation for what happened to us, so here it is.

We were driving home from dinner at my parents' place. They're about an hour and a half out. I'm driving, my wife is in the passenger seat, both kids (7 and 9) are asleep in the back. Probably 7 or 8pm, fully dark. My wife was looking out the window like she always does. She gets carsick so she basically never touches her phone in the car. We were just talking.

The thing you need to know about this drive is the last stretch of it. You go through a long mountain tunnel, then take the exit immediately after it, and that exit is lit up by big box stores on both sides of the highway. It's not an easy area to ignore. And we know the drive well enough that we don't need GPS, but not so well that we're running on autopilot.

Last thing I remember is being maybe two or three miles from the tunnel.

Next thing I remember, we're 10 miles down the highway. Past the tunnel. Past our exit. I kind of snapped to and said out loud, "wait, where are we? Did we miss the exit?"

Here's the part that gets me. My wife turns to me and says she has no idea where we are either. I pull up GPS on my phone, set it for home, and we are about 7 miles past our exit.

Neither of us remembers the tunnel. Neither of us remembers the exit. Neither of us remembers the shopping center...

If it were just me, fine, I zoned out, it happens. But both of us losing the exact same ten minutes???

Like I said, no explanation.

If no, what are my options? It works with Steam Link, which is cool. But the Steam Link performance isn't great.

I recognize this is the edgiest of edge cases, but here's what happened:

I spent a day dictating into a Bear note via my iPhone. For me, this is how I do my best brainstorming: keep the note pinned, get a thought, dictation on, go! In this particular instance I was describing features for a web app project that I'm working on. One of those features has a "delete all" button. As soon as I dictated the words “delete all” into Bear, it registered as a command and the entire contents of my note was deleted. 

An undo prompt came up immediately. Thank the f’ing heavens. When I tapped the undo prompt, Bear crashed. It just disappeared and left me staring at my home screen. I immediately jumped back into Bear but it was too late. The note was completely empty.

I’m not mad at Bear. I get it; software crashes. Who knows what caused this crash. Could have been Bear, could have been iOS, could have been something else entirely. This was just particularly bad timing.

I guess I'm just sharing my tale of woe here. On the bright side, now I know the magic words to delete an entire note's contents!

This does make me wish for some kind of incremental backup system in Bear. The new Workspaces thing is cool, but I'd trade it in for a built-in backup system any day.

Anyway, I'll survive. Thanks for reading.

In my Drupal 10’s site breadcrumb trails, I noticed that my nodes were only displaying the top-level node and the current node, despite being several levels deep in the menu navigation. So, for example, a node four levels deep:

Top-level Node > Second-level Node > Third-level Node > Current Node

Will only show the top and current node in the breadcrumb:

Top Level Node > Current Node

The only thing that will get the breadcrumb to show correctly is if I make a brand new node to replace the top-level node and then move the other nodes one at a time underneath it via each node's node edit page (moving things in the menu editor doesn't help).

This seems to be ok for a while... and then some unknown action triggers all of the breadcrumbs within the current menu trail to vanish while I’m not paying attention!

This site hosted on Pantheon. For those familiar with Pantheon, this is a multidev clone of another site whose breadcrumbs are working fine. After making the multidev clone, I changed some content before I noticed that the breadcrumbs were misbehaving.

Any troubleshooting ideas would be of great help! Google and ChatGPT just lead me in circles.

If I'm just being a dullard here, feel free to downvote me into oblivion... but I can't figure out how to legally rent and watch a 3D movie on the Quest. I'm genuinely baffled.

I feel like this should be the most obvious thing ever, but Googling (and ChatGPT'ing) is just leading me in circles.

Help?

I'm trying to create a new iCloud account to ultimately become a developer account. As this is a business venture, I don't want to use my personal iCloud account.

I have a custom domain and email address and a work phone number.

When I go to set up a new iCloud account, I get through the setup to the verification stages. I get the code to my email address, enter it in the setup, that seems to work. And I get the code from my phone number, enter it in the setup, and I get the message:

>Your account cannot be created at this time.

What the heck is going on?

I've tried:

• two different phone numbers,
• two different email addresses,
• two different browsers,
• used my Mac and my iPhone,
• and even two different physical locations (thinking that maybe my IP is flagged or something),
• over the course of 48 hours

Every time, same message:

>Your account cannot be created at this time.

What am I doing wrong here?! I'm open to any suggestions! Help!

EDIT: Solved! Make a new account on your Mac and, during the onboarding process, create a new iCloud account. It's likely that you could also make a new iCloud account while setting up an iPhone or iPad.

This happened last night and it’s still breaking my brain:

>I’m putzing around the house while actively listening to a podcast that’s playing on my iPhone via my AirPods. My wife is actively watching a show on her iPad via some cheapo Amazon Bluetooth headphones. As soon as my putzing takes me into range of my wife’s Bluetooth headphones, my iPhone drops the connection to my AirPods, connects to my wife’s headphones, and starts playing my iPhone’s podcast through her headphones. Meanwhile, her iPad, now disconnected from her headphones, starts playing her show out loud.

In what world does this audio routing behavior make any sense?!

This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered Bluetooth audio routing weirdness… like, why do my AirPods inexplicably choose to connect to the closed MacBook in my backpack instead of the unlocked iPhone in my hand? It’s baffling.

I guess I’m just venting here. It’s just crazy to me that Apple can get so much right and yet fail so magnificently on something that seems so basic.

*Yes, my iPhone has connected to those cheapo Amazon headphones before, but not for months. And obviously, since they were actively connect to, and playing audio from my wife’s iPad, her iPad was the most recent connection.

EDIT: Thanks everyone. Yes, I know that the solution here is to drop my wife’s headphones from my iPhone. That was the first thing I did after this whole thing went down. I guess the point I’m trying to make is simply that it seems like such weird behavior for two separate and actively playing audio setups to get so mixed up just because they became in range of one another. But maybe it’s just me.